Julian Schwinger Quote

Microscopic measurement has no meaning apart from a theory, and the idealized measurement concepts that are implicit in a particular theory must be accepted or rejected in accordance with the final success or failure of that theory to fulfill its avowed aims.


Nobel Lectures, Physics 1963-1970, Relativistic Quantum Field Theory (p. 142), Elsevier Publishing Co. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 1972


Microscopic measurement has no meaning apart from a theory, and the idealized measurement concepts that are implicit in a particular theory must be...

Microscopic measurement has no meaning apart from a theory, and the idealized measurement concepts that are implicit in a particular theory must be...

Microscopic measurement has no meaning apart from a theory, and the idealized measurement concepts that are implicit in a particular theory must be...

Microscopic measurement has no meaning apart from a theory, and the idealized measurement concepts that are implicit in a particular theory must be...